Smaller forms

On the following day, Goucher found an 18-cell form lasting 47484 generations. A few minutes later, Tanner Jacobi and Aidan F. Pierce responded with 16-cell forms each lasting three more generations.[4] Jacobi's variant, shown below, has a lifespan of 47487 generations, a bounding box of 22×17, and an MCPS of 37.

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Notes

↑An infinitely growing soup which "goes boring" after 133100 generations due to a backwards-firing stream of gliders was found by Rob Liston on May 12, 2019;[2] however, this is often not counted as a methuselah.[3]